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dtSearch “is the most powerful document search tool on the market.
— Wired Magazine
Awarded top “Splurge” rating

dtSearch “covers all data sources ... powerful Web-based engines for searching across lots of data.
— eWEEK Labs

dtSearch “will help you pick a needle out of a haystack … wade through lots of bits and bytes in a hurry.
— NBC4, Digital Edge

dtSearch voted “Best Product” for Components-Search
— MSD2D.com

People's .NET Choice Award


dtSearch "offers excellent indexing options and searches many types of data (files, folders, websites, Outlook, and­using APIs­databases); provides instant search results ... RECOMMENDATION: dtSearch is geared toward users who really need to search large numbers of documents and data, and for users who need complete control over indexing and search functionality."  "For anyone surrounded by mountains of data and documents, dtSearch is a must-have solution."
Windows IT Pro
Awarded "5 out of 5" Rating  


“Using dtSearch, an investigator can see the whole vocabulary in the index offering a tremendous advantage in the investigation.”  “'dtSearch is a phenomenally potent evidentiary extraction search tool' … 'Using dtSearch with the forensics software, I can carve out the unallocated space just like a regular file, then recover the individual files, whether they are text files or spreadsheets, deleted files, word processing files … and put them all into an index.'”
— EContent
(“The Truth is in There: Sleuthing for Data with Digital Forensics”)

dtSearch has been awarded a position on the EContent 100 List of companies that matter most in the digital content industry.

dtSearch “performs complex searches that other programs can't even imagine.”
— PC Magazine (comparison of search products)


“Here in the pages of COTS Journal we report on the latest technologies having utility in military and aerospace applications … Here are my favorite … [dtSearch] can construct indexes of your disk and directories, Outlook PST files, network drives, and even remote websitesallowing you to perform powerful searches with keywords, fuzzy logic, case sensitivity, wild card, date ranges and other metrics.”
— COTS® Journal (COTS Editorial)


“dtSearch is the clear winner as a means to locate documents and text within those documents.” “Searching with dtSearch ... is more intuitive ... and faster too ... dtSearch was more than twice as fast [at indexing] and provides better information about located files. It also makes better use of the Windows environment.”
— Law Office Computing (“Software Shoot-Out”)
Editor’s Choice

“I started searching for software that could help me locate stuff on my hard drive. Voila! I found [dtSearch].”
“The results are amazing ... [dtSearch Corp.] also markets the core of their software in the form of the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine.”
Midrange Systems (e-Business)

“dtSearch Web powers large sites ... and includes programmable APIs that support multiple programming languages.”
— Web Techniques


“Text Mining: dtSearch ... Addressing this issue of unstructured data is dtSearch ... a tool for indexing, searching and retrieving free-form text files. What makes dtSearch so interesting is the capability of its search process, which goes far beyond the usual word search offered by most text editors and word processors ... dtSearch is an ideal tool for bringing order to this collection of useful material ... dtSearch delivers a powerful text mining engine that is effective because of the level of intelligence it displays.”
— PC AI


“dtSearch is really stable, has lots of nice features, generally beats the pants off of [a major competitor].”
Principal, www.searchtools.com

“If you’re looking for a superior full-text search engine for your next development project, CodeHound recommends you check out dtSearch.”
— CodeHound (newsletter)


“dtSearch is fully programmable from your Visual Basic applications no more shelling out to separate programs to find files!”
— VB Bible (IDG Books)

“A fantastic program.” dtSearch now “lets you expand your research across multiple web sites. This is a great program and it keeps getting better.”
— The Docket


“dtSearch is a clear winner.”
— Legal Times

“dtSearch Offers High-Speed Terabyte Search ... The key to dtSearch's split-second speed is that it builds an index to store the location of each word.”
— InformationToday


dtSearch “has an excellent pedigree ... My Consultant colleague was completely bowled over by the product and I am sure it will become his tool of choice ... I was delighted to find that dtSearch allows for keyword indexing of the file and can search all meta-data that is provided.”
— Journal of Information Science

dtSearch searches “at blinding speed” and offers “a built-in spider that can search Web-based content.”
— CRN (Product Spotlight)

dtSearch “is a must-have tool for anyone reviewing electronic information in native format ... dtSearch reduces costs of document production, narrows a collection to key electronic files for a document production vendor and copies files to an alternate repository for in-house native file production.”  
— Law Office Computing


dtSearch “aims to answer the search challenge with its enterprise and developer text retrieval software product line, applications specifically designed for searching through vast volumes of data collected in data centers.”
— Processor Magazine (“dtSearch Makes Data Center Searches A Cinch”)


“Creating an index lets dtSearch perform basic searches with a speed that’s close to instantaneous ... dtSearch also shows off its power with a great range of optional search features ... dtSearch’s reporting capabilities are also impressive ... If you ever face a real file-search emergency, make the call to obtain dtSearch.”
— Computer User Online

“Creating an index lets dtSearch perform basic searches with a speed that’s close to instantaneous ... dtSearch also shows off its power with a great range of optional search features ... dtSearch’s reporting capabilities are also impressive ... If you ever face a real file-search emergency, make the call to obtain dtSearch.”
— Computer User Online

“dtSearch is a relatively unique enterprise search product that is easily implemented; a fool could set up and use dtSearch, and any moderately experienced developer could implement the search libraries in a program ... intuitive and powerful ... incredibly speedy.”
— The Jem Report


dtSearch “is simply the best search tool available ... I simply cannot begin to imagine doing any search of electronically stored information without having dtSearch in my forensic toolbox ... The ROI for dtSearch is practically as fast as the search results.”
— American Bankruptcy Institute Journal


“Searching across a wide range of computer and vertical market publications resulted in a collection of highly positive reviews and high ratings for dtSearch from respected publications ... Standard corporate applications include access to and retrieval of global information files ... dtSearch also provides text search capabilities for organizational databases running under SQL, Access, Oracle, and any ODBC-compliant database software.  The indexed resources may reside within different organizational units and can even include networked remote resources in other cities.  dtSearch supports both global searching and searches of selected resources and groupings.”
— ONLINE Magazine

“dtSearch can be used on its own or, alternatively, its text-retrieval engine can be integrated with document-management software ... I have been using dtSearch for a few weeks now and have found it very useful in managing the ‘information overload.’ I particularly value the ability to search across database as well as word-processed files.”
— SA Computer Magazine, Awarded Five Stars


“Look High, Look Low, or Let dtSearch Have a Go ... Trying to gather information from all over the map? dtSearch scours your disks for text within Office-type files old and new ... Installation is breezy. The program is simple to use, and results are swift.”
— CP Universe

“If you need to search through high volumes of data, this is the way.”
— The Data Bus

 
“Regardless of what DMS you end up creating or buying, I would suggest that you give some thoughtful consideration to a full-text indexing system such as dtSearch ... I can tell you that there is no task too big for dtSearch ... You can choose to install dtSearch apps at each server and workstation.  Alternatively ... you can install a .NET version on your servers which is accessible by a Web browser throughout your organization.”
— TechnoLawyer Newsletter

 

dtSearch is “truly good.”
— Electronic Composition & Imaging

“dtSearch is the most powerful general purpose search engine out there.”
Editor in Chief, Visual Developer Magazine

“Searching for Waldo”: The dtSearch Engine “could rapidly lookup various words in the various code files ... seems to have more horsepower behind it than” its competitor. “Also impressive was the dtSearch’s Engine ability to index so many different file types, and then display it all in HTML with hit navigation.”
— Boise Software Developer’s Group (presentation)

dtSearch provides “top-notch searching tools.”
— Computer Shopper

“dtSearch, a powerful commercial product ... The best commercial product to date for translators and translation companies would appear to be dtSearch.”
— sdc-language.com (revised article adapted from an earlier article that appeared in Language Today)

  “For finding data on my office systems, I use dtSearch.”
— California Lawyer

“The Web site’s dtSearch Engine allows visitors to search the text for key words and topics.”
— The Jerusalem Post

“Site Puts Ancient Hebrew Texts Online … collection includes more than 15,000 volumes of rare and out-of-print works … The dtSearch Engine allows visitors to search within document collections with more than one language … The search engine provides dozens of search options, with Unicode support for hundreds of languages, and can display Web-based documents with links and images.”
— Information Week (describing www.hebrewbooks.org usage of the dtSearch Engine)

dtSearch’s “latest release also includes a 64-bit engine for Windows and .Net that allows users to integrate with other Web-based applications. International language support is accomplished through Unicode, which spans hundreds of international languages.”
— Information Week (“The Weekly Watch On Content Management”)

“dtSearch has helped businesses meet some of the largest-capacity text retrieval needs in the world and has developed a portfolio of tools that meet the specific data management requirements of any sized business operation.”
— Processor Magazine (“Letting Information Drive Business”)


“One product that I am hot to trot about is dtSearch Desktop, the search tool I use just about every day. It’s a terrific tool for finding files based on the data inside the files.”
— PC World.com (column)


“There’s one option ... that I, as a tech journalist, could really warm to: Using a Knowledge Management system OEM’d from dtSearch ... it can index documents anywhere in your file system.”
— eWeek (analysis)


“Forensic Toolkit ... has significantly more powerful and efficient text-search functionality, thanks to dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine integration.  Integrating dtSearch eliminates the need to buy a separate text-search tool.” “If that’s not one of your incident-response applications, dtSearch ... is a necessity.”
— Network Computing (discussing Forensic Toolkit embedding dtSearch)


“Intuitive and austere ... dtSearch does extensive, intricate searching accurately and efficiently ... a superb search tool.”
— PC World

“But what if you want to look for the information inside your files? In that case, you need dtSearch, a text-retrieval program that can look for specific words stored inside a wide range of formats, including Word, Excel, dBASE, Zip, PDF, HTML, XML, email, and Unicode files.”
— Computer Power User

“As far as search capabilities, few products of any kind are as comprehensive as dtSearch ... If you want the most power possible, give dtSearch a good, long look.”
— PC Magazine

“dtSearch is an intelligently conceived, versatile program with a superior repertoire of text retrieval capabilities ... exceptional search functionality.”
— Library Technology Reports

“dtSearch helps companies find information in text-based documents quickly and efficiently ... The addition of comprehensive XML technology into the search engine has put it in position to tap the growing business-to-business e-commerce market ... the selling point was the search engine’s ability to cover the gamut of features customers would want when they search.”
— Computerworld Canada


“dtSearch makes a fast search engine for text data ... A search on ‘guinea fowl’ on my desktop, for example, pulls out 48 documents containing those silly birds from the nearly 100,000 that I indexed in less than a second ... I also took a look at the dtSearch engine from a programmer’s point of view ... If you need wide-ranging search capabilities in your own application, their Text Retrieval Engine package is definitely worth considering.”
— Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online


“dtSearch The Ultimate Search Machine ... more quickly than you can spill your coffee, any document matching your request will appear ... This one is fast, easy and a pleasure to use.”
— dataBASE d-ZINE


“dtSearch ... offers a much better solution ... dtSearch's offers a robust search engine with a comprehensive Win and .Net API.   dtSearch's engine can connect to any file system, including Web content, and it is not limited to a page count.  Solution providers can build custom interfaces, integrat[ing] the engine with any custom application.”
— CRN (“Google Mini Comes Up Short”)

“The growth in demand for versatile search tools has been good news for dtSearch, a leading provider of search software to corporate users, as well as software vendors that embed dtSearch in their products … The newest version of the products includes native 64-bit support and improved international language support through Unicode.”
— Processor Magazine
(“The Scoop on Search”)

Product of the Week


“Bottom line: dtSearch manages a terabyte of text in a single index and returns results in less than a second … Corporate features include multiple languages, index sharing, and customization. Plus, there’s extensive third-party support. “I was especially impressed with the transparent features that boost accuracy.
— InfoWorld

dtSearch was previously awarded the InfoWorld Buyers Assurance Seal

“For combing through large amounts of data, dtSearch “leads the market.
— Network Computing (CSI: Enterprise coverage)


“Ideally suited for rapid indexing by forensic investigators.
— Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection


“Indispensable for users who need a search tool to access multiple file formats … The product performed searches at blazing speeds.
— Computer Reseller News Test Center
Recommended

dtSearch is “so good that even criminal investigators use it for forensics. Stacked with awards and accolades … searches lightening fast and accurately to boot! Just to mention a figure, 100,000 documents searched in less than a second … nearly every conceivable method of foraging through data is built into this lifesaver … This is certainly the searchlight of the computer world.”
— The London Morning Paper

“dtSearch an inspired choice.” “dtSearch offers intelligent searching at terrific speeds we were really amazed … wow go ahead and find your most vital information with lightning speed.” “dtSearch is a fast, powerful, text file indexing program for document search and retrieval.”
— it-news
Editor’s Choice


“With corporate network data stores taking on immense proportions, powerful methods of dredging out specific information are key to leveraging the usefulness of enormous storage systems. [dtSearch Corp.] has successfully accomplished this with dtSearch ... an impressive text-retrieval application that is already making this reviewer’s life easier. The main search window in dtSearch includes every conceivable method of describing exactly what information you’re searching for.”
— PC Magazine Online


dtSearch is “a MUST HAVE tool for network administrators and computer professionals.”
— S&J Magazine


“Big site seeks search engine ... dtSearch Web ... adds powerful text search options to your Web site or intranet ... Get search results in an instant.”
— Internet Works

“Beats the Heck Out of Grep ... A text search tool for end users and developers alike, dtSearch [offers] near-instant searching ... developer edition [has] the text retrieval engine for Windows API, .NET or Linux ... The Web edition [has] a spider-bot that can crawl external sites ... dtSearch Publish lets you include the full-fledged text retrieval machine on any CD or DVD.”
— Software Development Magazine

“How would you like a program that can index a million words in a host of file formats ... then find any word or phrase you need in any indexed file and show you the entire text of that file, regardless of format so close to instantly only an android would appreciate the difference? The program is dtSearch ... Fast, clean, efficient, accurate, complete.”
ComputorEdge Magazine

“Finding a particular document ... An impossible task? It may be if you don’t have dtSearch ... We particularly appreciated the speed and flexibility of the searches.”
— Smart Computing

dtSearch is “an excellent program.”
— Online Today

“More than a search tool, dtSearch is an application that lawyers can use for electronic discovery and management of electronic documents.”  dtSearch's “power and versatility were the reasons I kept thinking of e-discovery as I tested dtSearch. The Dec. 1 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure underscore the obligation of parties in litigation to provide electronic data in discovery.  That means finding the data. And finding it requires a powerful and versatile search tool ... dtSearch includes features specifically designed for corporate and forensic applications ... Once the index is created, searching is every bit as fast as the company promises.”
— LegalLine Blog (by the author of the “The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web)”


dtSearch is “a powerful, flexible lifesaver.”
—WINLAB Reviews
4 W's Award

“One of my favorite tools, that I talk about in any presentation or training class, is dtSearch ... Among the many new features, some of the most notable include the ability to create automatic index updates that can be scheduled; the ability to index other people’s web sites, even handling dynamically created links.”
— Sourcerer’s Apprentice


Awarded a top rating in the “Index and Search Resumes in Document Folders” category.
— Recruiting on the Web (“Smart Strategies for Finding the Perfect Candidat
e”)
Best in Class Award

“dtSearch c'est le 'père' de la recherche de texte.”
— Planète


“dtSearch provides an incredibly powerful search engine to help you comb through everything from your desktop to your network to the Internet ... an invaluable tool in law offices, recruiting, medical research, and government offices ... dtSearch has unleashed the single most efficient text retrieval application available.”
— PC Upgrade Magazine

“Results are returned in lightning speed even on multiple-indexed file server folders ... Everyone agrees that using the program was simple to learn and a great asset.”
— Public Defense Backup Center Report

“The combined features of conventional field-based and text-based searching via the dtSearch engine were integral in the sorting and culling of this unwieldy data set.”  The article also praised “the ability to exploit the search engine for text searches in Kanji.”
— Legal Tech Newsletter


dtSearch is “so powerful and loaded with options ... The breadth of options available when setting up your search parameters is amazing.”
— PC Today


“Aviation firm earns wings with new text search ... Spar chose dtSearch Corp.’s text-search product, dtSearch Web, to serve the information up in an easily indexed manner online.”  For “'a requirement that we have to run this thing on stand-alone PCs,' ... Spar signed on for dtSearch Publish.”
— Computerworld Canada (discussing Spar Aerospace's choice of dtSearch)


“dtSearch is a company that has a strong following among developers.”
—CMS Watch
(“The Enterprise Search Report”)


“dtSearch has expanded its product line ... development staff makes for consistent-to-rapid-paced product development.”
—CMS Watch
(“Enterprise Search Vendor Landscape”)


Enterprise search survey included:  a “knowledge portal enabling rapid and efficient retrieval of the complete technical documentation for field service engineers at Otis Elevator to meet rapid response goals when supporting customers using a customized implementation of dtSearch, presented by ... Contegra Systems.” — The Gilbane Group (Enterprise Search Practice Blog)

dtSearch ... “offers an incredible number of tools for searching your files ... displays your results with highlighted keyword hits.”  dtSearch also “includes a new index format that enables you to store more than a terabyte of data in a single index.”
— CNET


dtSearch “can end the hassle associated with managing large amounts of data ... dtSearch is a relatively unique enterprise search product that is easily implemented ... intuitive and powerful.” 
— Software in Review


“dtSearch allows instant, vast searches.” 
— Legal Management


dtSearch “allows you to search over and within documents, email, websites ... more than two dozen text search options ... hit highlighting.”
— NetGuideWeb


dtSearch “can search through terabytes of text (one terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes) in a few seconds.”  dtSearch “can find, and highlight, words in documents quickly ... Original files are not altered. dtSearch works only through its index.”
— The Ledger


“Take dtSearch ... The software makes it easier to find information on Web sites and PC desktops, data networks and software files.”
— Investor’s Business Daily


“The site redesign is intended to make it easier for visitors to access regulatory information, news and forms ... Additions include search technology from dtSearch that lets users search across the entire portal for information.” — FederalComputerWeek (discussing the North Carolina Banking Commission's relaunch of its Web site to include, among other things, Microsoft CMS and dtSearch)

“This industrial-strength text-search program is designed for professionals who work with large collections of documents on PCs, on Web servers, and in other archives ... powerhouse search tool.”
— PC World (“Deep File Divers”)

 “When I say ‘split second’ I mean it was really too fast for me to measure ... The company, dtSearch Corp., has been producing search software for more than 10 years. But it’s hard to see how they could improve on the current version.”
— The Gaston Gazette

dtSearch “algorithms provide unrivaled power and capabilities ... the program raises the bar in text retrieval, providing an industrial strength search engine that is an absolute must-have for Web-based data information management ... dtSearch outmaneuvers the competition. It’s a robust, sophisticated and powerful text-search tool ... If you want speed and accuracy, dtSearch is the only way to go.”
— Law Office Computing (“The Search Is On” article)

“The needle’s in the haystack, and you’re on a deadline to find it. You need dtSearch